Improved washing-machine



ff it Jo'iiiv` 1i. 'KIMBALL or NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS.

l I Letters .Patent iVm-97,931,

elated .December 14, 1869.

nvipnovrin wAsHINMAeHINn.

The Schedule referred toin these Letters Patent and making part of the saine.

ville, in thecounty of Du Page, and State of Illinois,

` have invented a new and improved WashingfMachine andI dohereby declare 4that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art :to iiiake-` anduse the same, reference being had to theaccoinpanying drawings,

j forming part `of this specification.

` 'vlfhis ,invention relates vto improvements in washing.n machines, and consists in an improved arrangement of y' operatingmechanism ibi" revolving a vertically-sus? pended shaft, with .a crank at the top, and carrying within the `tube a corrugated or roughened rubber, for action onfthe clothes Figure 1 is a .sectional elevation of my improved churn, and

Figure 2 is a horizontal section in ythe line a x. l

Similar` letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts. i Y i A istlie vertical shaft, suspended from' the top of the tub, and carrying the rubber B,by which the ac- `tion-is produced on the clothes.`

' This shaft has aerankat the top, the piriC of -which is oval in form, and takes 'into a correspondingly-shaped groove or slot, D, ingthe end of an oscillating block, E, mounted on a horizontal axis, F, and arranged in .any

suitable way for the attachment of aworking-lever, G,

`curved friction-bars, I 1', on .projecting arms, K, of

the block E.

` T0 u uhom/W mail 901mm? i Y These bars are attached 'to thearms Kby screws Be it known that I, J OHN' J. KIMBALL, of Napei- L, so as to beV adjusted toward or from the frictiondisk on' which they are designed to act, so that one 'bar will dii've Vit one way, aii'd the other, the other way; and the disk is so arranged on the shaft,rela tively to the crank, that, at the moment the latter arrives. at the dead-point, the disk will be engaged -with the' bar I `or I', to be carried past `the said vdeadhpoint.

Therubber B consistsv of large block,of .wood or i other suitable substance,conju gated or groovedon the V bottom, aiid is Ydesigned to.' bei 'levolvedabve the clothes, so that its weight will he supported by them;

and to accomplish this, it is fitted to the shaft so ,as

to slide up and `down thereon, and a pin or spline, M; is fit-ted to the shaft, towork in slots or grooves, N,- iii,

the wall of' the hole through it.

Bythis arrangement, an equal and nniformaction A and described. I

, 4 c JOHN vJ'. .KIMBALL will be produced on the clothes, no matter what quan- `Witnesses W. C. POWELL, L. KENT. 

